(UPDATED 10/2 AM) Today is Election Day in Louisiana. About 79,200 have already voted – this figure includes nearly all of the mail in ballots. 25% of early voters were black, and the party breakdown of the early voters was 54-36-10% Democrat/Republican/Independent (party breakdown by parish here). While the black percentage is relatively high for absentees, […]
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RSS feed for this sectionA “spin free” projection of GOP Senate gains
How many Senate seats will the GOP gain this fall ? Can the GOP retake the Senate ? And which seats are likely to flip ? Unlike our discussion of House gains, there has been a decent volume of polling in nearly all of the Senate races, with some races having several polls done each week […]
Early Voting in Louisiana concludes for the October primary…….
Louisiana’s primaries (which include the Lt Governor’s race, a Republican Congressional runoff, and various local races) are now less than a week away. Early voting has concluded, although mail in/faxed ballots will still be accepted up until Friday. We kept track of the early voting numbers, and what we’ve noticed so far is as follows:
2010 Elections, 9/23 edition – House/Senate/Governors polls
2010 Election Predictions – How we rank individual races We are now in the thick of election season. Hawaii’s primary held last Saturday concludes 2010’s primary season, and we are now seeing polling released at an accelerated pace (Louisiana’s “everything else” primary will be next Saturday, October 2, and early voting concludes tomorrow). We presently […]
2010 Elections, 9/16 edition – House/Senate/Governors polls
2010 Election Predictions – How we rank individual races Now that “Super Tuesday II” has come and gone, all but Hawaii have chosen their Congressional nominees (Louisiana’s “everything else” primary will be on Saturday, October 2, and early voting starts this Saturday). We are now basing our analyses on a composite of polls conducted over […]
“Super Tuesday II” Results – Two for the TEA Party
Tonight, seven states held their primaries. Overall, the TEA Party had two big victories over establishment candidates in Republican primaries. And healthcare reform’s unpopularity was apparent again.
2010 Primary Season statistics
With primary season winding down, there are two things we wanted to show you graphically: (1) The primary vote by party by state, and (2) Current list of House races we’re watching.
Senate and Governor’s Races – Then and Now
As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. We wanted to show you how the electoral map has changed in a month:
2010 Elections, 9/9 edition – House/Senate/Governors polls
2010 Election Predictions – How we rank individual races Now that Labor Day has passed, primary season is in the “home stretch”– the eight remaining Congressional primaries will conclude by September 18 (Louisiana’s “everything else” primary will be on Saturday, October 2). We are now basing our analyses on a composite of polls conducted over […]
Final Thoughts on the U.S. Senate Primary
To provide the most complete picture of Louisiana’s U.S. Senate primary, we wanted to do some more analysis of the vote both at a statewide and a Congressional District level.